degree of curve

curve

[kurv] /kɜrv/

noun

1.

a continuously bending line, without angles.

2.

the act or extent of curving.

3.

any curved outline, form, thing, or part.

4.

a curved section of a road, path, hallway, etc.

5.

Railroads. a curved section of track: in the U.S. the curve is often expressed as the central angle, measured in degrees, of a curved section of track subtended by a chord 100 feet (30 meters) long (degree of curve)

6.

Also called curve ball. Baseball.

a pitch delivered with a spin that causes the ball to veer from a normal straight path, away from the side from which it was thrown.

the course of such a pitched ball.

7.

a graphic representation of the variations effected in something by the influence of changing conditions; graph.

8.

Mathematics. a collection of points whose coordinates are continuous functions of a single independent variable.

9.

a misleading or deceptive trick; cheat; deception.

10.

Education. a grading system based on the scale of performance of a group, so that those performing better, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject, receive high grades: